Heartland Labor Forum

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The Heartland Labor Forum is Kansas City’s only program about the workplace. It’s radio that talks back to the boss! Whether you’re a union member or your workplace isn’t organized, Heartland Labor Forum (HLF) has stories for you, guaranteed to inspire, educate, or enrage you

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CleanHonduras: Laboratory for Privatization

Every week since late May, thousands of Hondurans take to the streets in torch marches to protest the theft of millions of dollars of their health care funds by government officials, including the President. The U.S. media barely mentions it.

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we get some good news from Bangladesh about compensation for the Rana Plaza building collapse in 2013, then talk to Erik Loomis, whose book, Out of Sight, follows the thread that runs from the Triangle Shirtwaist...

CleanThe Origins of Right to Work by Cedric deLeon and Obamacare Survives the Supreme Court: What’s Next?

Where does the idea behind Right to Work come from? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we interview Cedric deLeon whose new book, The Origins of Right to Work, traces it back to Chicago in the 1880s and claims that it was always about dividing work...

As Kansas City debates raising the minimum wage, this week’s Heartland Labor Forum asks the question: by how much? Should it go to $15 by 2020? We’ll get the views from UMKC economist Peter Eaton, Jobs with Justice’s Justin Stein,

The European migrant crisis is all over the news. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll look into the crises behind the crisis including: war, imperialism, and poverty. Why are so many from Africa and the Middle East trying to break into fortre.

CleanERISA’s Demise: The Domino Effect and Huelga: Story from a Casino Utility Closet

Last Fall Congress passed and President Obama signed a so-called Pension Reform Act allowing employers to reduce or suspend pension payments to retirees if a pension plan is "deeply troubled." Teamster retirees face cuts.

Labor History in two minutes a day? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we talk to Stephanie Sewell of the Illinois Labor History society about the new radio show Labor History in Two. Then, the government of Venezuela regularly gets bad press in ..

CleanMatt Kennard: On the Trail of the Global Capitalist Racketeers and the High Public Cost of Low Fast Food Wages

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we interview journalist Matt Kennard, author of The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs. the Masters of the Universe. Then, UC Berkeley's Ian Perry explains what wage corporations should pay so taxpayers can quit subsidi

Does the World Bank Work for Working People? Not according to a new study about how poor people are chased off their land to make way for shiny new projects and on Pioneer Women, Susan interviews a woman welder. All this on the Heartland Labor Forum.

CleanA 100 Years Ago, Socialists Dominated MOKAN Labor – History of the Socialist Party and Women Battle Sexual Harassment at Ford

A hundred years ago, Kansas and Missouri were a hotbed of socialism. Rabble rousers like Mother Jones and Kate Richards O’Hare drew large crowds. There’s a new history of the Socialist Party. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum,

Why do so-called education reforms keep proposing the same failed strategies for education: blaming teachers, attacking tenure, proposing testing or charters or outright privatization? What are the strategies based on best-practices by teachers that ar...

CleanAT&T on a Race to the Bottom? Home Healthcare Workers Fighting for a Union

Last week AT&T reported massive profits, but 17,000 workers in the Midwest who helped make them rich are working without a contract and facing demands for slashed healthcare, pensions, and job security protections.

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum: Meet Vicky Hale – the new President at UAW Local 31. As their first ever woman Prez, she’s a Pioneer Woman. Last week, adjunct professors raised hell along with fast food and other low wage workers.

The attack on public education has become an onslaught starting from the heights of the American Legislative Exchange Council and subverting institutions from Kindergarten through higher education with the myth that public is bad and a failure.

Some big union contracts are up this year. Will they begin a turnaround in labor’s fortunes? There was a near strike on the West Coast docks by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union; The Oil Workers had an unprecedented strike over safety at .